I agree 100% with Jürgen here. As a guy who regularly does funny things with LyX, I don't need my job made harder by working around oddities put in as "user friendliness". And he's right, ERT is and always should be raw LaTeX.
SteveT On Monday 22 December 2008 04:17:53 am Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > I think LyX should not try to be more clever than the user. We know from > other Word processors where this ends. Particularly, ERT is supposed to > pass code _as is_ without any addition or modification. Doing clever tricks > is impossible to get right. > > Dieter Jurzitza wrote: > > 1.) put automatically a blank as whitespace at the end of each TeX-insert > > before closing it. > > For instance, inserting active babel characters will most likely break with > your proposal, e.g. German "Weihnachtstage und <ERT>"~</ERT>nächte" or > "(Wunsch-)<ERT>""</ERT>zettel" must not be followed by a blank. > > > 2.) protect a whitespace follwing a TeX-insert if there is one - assume > > that the user intentionally puts a whitespace there. > > And if the assumption is wrong? How is the user supposed to get rid of the > whitespace again? > > Jürgen
